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The company has decided to follow the magistrate’s order, but makes it known that it does not consider the measure “proportionate”. The whole story began on February 26, 2016 On April 5, 2016 Facebook has decided to obscure the page “Musulmani d’Italia – Comunità” (Muslims of Italy – Community) and the eponymous closed group, on
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Davide Falcioni will be prosecuted for “complicity in trespassing”. In August of 2012 he was making a report for the website Agoravox On 4th April 2016 the judge for preliminary hearings of the Court of Turin, Paola Boemio, at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, issued an order for indictment for complicity in breach of
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Lucia Portolano was accused by Nando Marino of producing gossip and ask not very intelligent questions. Local journalists ask for an action from the Order of the Puglia region During the press conference where Nando Marino presented himself, the mayoral candidate for the Democratic Party in Brindisi (Puglia), the journalist Lucia Portolano, chief editor of
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Automated systems and decision making have transformed the ways in which our data is processed and analysed and, accordingly, how companies are able to use it. There are fears that data can be used to discriminate against vulnerable users in ways which are ‘unaccountable’. In this post, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Acting Director of the LSE Media Policy Project, outlines some tools available to allow users greater […]
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Media Policy Project
By Michelle TrimbornThe Norwegian Supreme Court was awarded the Global Freedom of Expression Prize 2015 by the Columbia University. ECPMF Executive Board member Prof. Dirk Voorhoof held the awarding speech.
Global Freedom of Expression Prize 2015 by the Columbia University (Screenshot: ECPMF)
It was only the second time that the New York based Columbia University gave out the award. Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger established it in 2014 to honour support the fostering of freedom of expression and legal norms that contribute to this. The prize is given to outstanding judicial decisions which contributed to the strengthening of freedom of expression…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Interview by Ana Ribeiro and Ola AljariThe predicament of refugees coming into Europe over the past year has worsened amid the increasing spread of fear and lies about them in the receiving countries’ public sphere. The movement to counter this situation has seen some progress in recent months, however.
A notable example has been the now internationally-known Hoaxmap. Created by an everyday citizen based in Leipzig, it is an online tool that shows where nasty rumours about refugees are sprouting up in German-speaking EU countries, accompanied by the media reports debunking them. The map does not only tell a story…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
In the debate on algorithmic accountability, and platform responsibility more specifically, the contribution of the social researcher is immense. In this set of posts, researchers reflect upon broad themes of control and agency — not only that which is faced by the data subject, but also by the researcher who relies on proprietary platforms to understand how these systems operate […]
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Media Policy Project
by Ana Ribeiro
ECPMF condemns the latest violent attack on Croatian journalist Ante Tomić. The "Jutarnji list" columnist is known for his satirical writing.
Ante Tomić/Creative Commons (Photo: Petr Novák)
The incident of 31 March 2016 marks the third recent attack on Tomić. The first instance involved a bucket of faeces being dropped on his head as he was sitting at a cafe in Split, in February 2014, with the attacker making a remark related to his journalism. A year later, Tomić‘s effigy was burned during carnival in his hometown of Proložac. At the time he was working as a reporter for the…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The largest social network fails to respect the magistrate’s injunction. For the Italian management of the company, the journalists are public figures It arrived on March 25, 2016: the “no” from Facebook to the arrangement by the magistrate of Reggio Emilia who on March 8 had established the darkening of the page “Musulmani d’Italia –
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
For having told of the eviction of a family from an apartment occupied illegally, Davide Camarrone has been called “a liar” and “an unworthy” On March 19, 2016 the journalist for RAI – Sicilia Davide Camarrone was insulted on Facebook by the owner of an apartment in Palermo where, on March 15th, the eviction of
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
